*I'm not a huge fan of the business press, but "Business Insider" often has some remarkable insider stuff.
http://www.businessinsider.com/graphene-where-business-and-science-collide-2013-4
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"With a huge array of potential applications, it is no wonder that firms, state enterprises and research institutes are clamoring to take out patents to begin the “walling off process” of potential product and market spaces – thereby creating barriers to entry, behind which future revenue streams will accrue. (((Well, how handy for the laudable cause of progress and human improvement, etc.)))
"This is a crucial point for all governments, but especially UK PLC. Firms in China, the US and South Korea lead the way in the number of patents filed over the past five years in potential applications of Graphene. According to Cambridge IP, the world’s top ten Graphene patent owners are (listed alphabetically):
· International Business Machines (IBM)
· Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
· Rice University (William Marsh)
· Samsung (South Korea)
· Sandisk 3D LLC
· Sungyunkwan University
· Tsinghua University
· Xerox Corp
· Zhejiang University
"When we list the patents filed by Research Institute, the table, in terms of percentage shares of the approximately 7,500 patents filed to date, looks as follows..."
